And for an exciting, eclectic guide to the alternative press, check out Utne Reader. I've yet to find as good a forum for debating issues both personal and political from such a variety of perspectives.

You have to laugh at the world, or else you'll go crazy. Doonesbury and Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World are essential reading for anyone living through the 1990s. And if I ever find online sites for Molly Ivins's columns, Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For, and Eric Orner's The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, I'll let you know.

The Advocate may be unable to deal with bisexuality and too often features the glitz and glamour of Hollywood at the expense of the nitty-gritty of the gay rights movement, but it's still the best gay newsmagazine out there.

If you think The New York Times "prints all the news that's fit to print," I've got a bridge to sell you. But nonetheless, the Times is still the definitive newspaper in the country, and now they have an online version.

As far as novels, poems, plays, and essays, there's a whole range of authors I'm into. James Baldwin, Tony Kushner, Randall Kenan, Armistead Maupin, Leslie Feinberg, Nadine Gordimer, David Feinberg, Starhawk, Tom Spanbauer, Audre Lorde, and Vladimir Voinovich are just some of them. More later.

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Last updated 8 March 1996